December 31

Joss Whedon - the song.
It's off the album "O Great Queen Electric, What Do You Have Waiting for Me?" by Chris Zabriskie. Anyway, Happy New Year. Here's hoping it's going to be a great year for all of us.
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Strike You!: five-minute satirical short film.
A comedic sketch showing a day in the life of writer, "Matt" during the Writers' Guild Strike. Featuring Meredith Salenger who played 'Grace Newman' in the Buffy episode "I Only Have Eyes for You". (NSFW due to adult language).
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Faith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon.
This book will be coming out in the summer of next year and "examines a variety of Whedon's characters and discusses what can be learned from their struggles and discoveries regarding religion and belief". The synoposis on the publisher's website is really interesting and well worth a look.
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Canon versus Fanon versus Authorial Intent.
"Canon is what happened...Personal canon is 'What happened as far as I'm concerned'..Fanon is any personal canon held in common by two or more people....Author intent is the personal canon of the person (or people) who wrote the source...Author intent is not canon." An interesting look at the subject with mentions of Joss' shows.

Bid for signed Whedonverse posters.
To help fund a sky writing campaign to be seen during the Rose Bowl Parade, fans4writers.com are auctioning off a signed James Marsters poster and a Serenity cast pic signed by Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau and Sean Maher.

"Buffy" writer signs letter urging AMPTP to restart talks with writers.
Pilot season, where new shows are born, is supposed to start next month, but dozens of projects could be threatened by the writer's strike. Rebecca Rand Kirshner, who wrote several Buffy episodes including "Tabula Rasa", "Hell's Bells" and "Potential", is joining more than a hundred writers with pilot projects in signing a letter to the AMPTP to come back to the bargaining table.
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Firefly box set at Best Buy for $20.49.
Just in case you missed the sale price last week at Target... and just in case you still have any unconverted friends or family members to buy gifts for. This price is available both in-store and online.

Fighting for the future - a challenge.
Joss Whedon and many others we know donate their signatures to the prize. How to win it? Produce a video of any genre about how you would get a fair deal made in the writers' strike.

Sugarshock makes Webcomics' Top 10 list for 2007.
Calls it "easily the best webcomic to come out from an established comic-book publishing house... ever." Meanwhile, ComixTalk's end-of-year roundtable says of online comics, "if Dark Horse, say, treats [Sugarshock] ... as more than a one-off promotional deal, then we'll know we've turned the corner."

Cash for the Crew - a fandom campaign.
A chance to help crew members affected by the production shutdown. If you make a donation to The Work Stoppage Fund and forward the acknowledgement onto Crew for the Crew, you get a change to win signed scripts donated by striking writers. This is a really worthwhile thing to do especially at this time of year.
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Hulu puts Firefly online for free.
As a taster, they've put the pilot "Our Mrs Reynolds Serenity" up on their blog. Alternatively you could over to SerenityStuff.com and read why you should avoid Hulu like the plague. Mainly because writers don't get anything from streaming videos.

Christopher Brookmyre is a Flan.
Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish crime writer notable for previous pop culture references to Buffy and the A-Team, has a major character in his new novel Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks who is an all-out Browncoat.
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First March of the Mutant Enemy, Part 2.
The Mutant Enemy Day Documentary concludes, interviewing more folks, including William Mapother (Lost) and Joss Whedon himself. As someone who was there, this video (and the part before it) shows exactly what it felt like to be there that day.

December 15

"We have something else, we got crazy eyes".
A clip of Joss' ace speech in Boston has made its way onto YouTube. If you want more coverage of the strike rally, then click here for a video from The Cambridge Chronicle. Amongst other things, there's an interview with Joss himself. ETA: All the speeches, including Joss' one in full, can be found here.

December 14

Smallville fans out-penciling Whedon fans, so far.
In the Pencils2Moguls campaign, where fans are urged to buy boxes of pencils to be sent to the six studios making up the AMPTP as a symbolic display for the writers' strike, Smallville fans are edging out Whedon fans in boxes sold.
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(SPOILER)Dark Horse's Buffy Zone updated.
Mostly it's a recap of some spoilers that have already been leaked in various interviews, especially for issues 10-11 and Drew Goddard's upcoming arc. Also an update on Serenity: Better Days, Serenity lunchboxes, and the announcement about A Shepherd's Tale.
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December 12

SciFi cuts Dec 14th Firefly Marathon to Four Hours.
SciFi Channel has decided to air two movies in the prime time slot Friday night, cutting the Firefly Marathon essentially in half. Very disappointing, considering that the Channel had been running advertisements for the full Firefly marathon just this past Sunday, during the rerun of "Tin Man".

Merry Christmas from Felicia Day's Guild.
Felicia Day's web sitcom, "The Guild" has a special Christmas greeting called "A Christmas Raid Carol". It features all the characters and a scary looking mechanical Santa.

Whedon & Mutant Enemy at The Gates.
Comic Book Resources covers Mutant Enemy Day and the issues surrounding the strike. Has a great bit about Joss' son asking him about why he could still write comic books when he's on strike.

Buffy fan gives a report on Mutant Enemy Day in L.A.
A site called mycelebrityencounters.com, run by Monique, has a report on who she met at Mutant Enemy Day last Friday. It even includes some of the guests from the recent Browncoat Cruise, and that's only the beginning.

December 08

Juliet Landau has officially joined MySpace.
Before the start of ME Day, I ran into her while making my way over to the picket line. We spoke about her new myspace page and she wish people would visit it, instead of the fake one that is on there. [ETA: The account appears to have been deleted]
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Win a massively autographed Mutant Enemy tote bag.
Miss Mutant Enemy Day? Let your voice be heard anyway! A tote bag with the Mutant Enemy logo was signed by nearly every Mutant Enemy writer and actor that showed up to strike, 34 signatures in all. Also several signatures from WGA writers who came to show support. And you can win it!
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Help needed for Mutant Enemy Day post picket picnic.
To be specific, the fan organisers are looking for "some kind of canopy/tent-thing" due to the likelihood of rain. If you can help in anyway, please let them know. Also food and other supplies are required as well.

Win a Serenity poster signed by Joss Whedon.
A Whedonesque poster is trying to raise funds and awareness for leiomyosarcoma (which is a rare form of cancer). And she's donating her signed Serenity poster to help do this.

See the premiere of PS I Love You.
James Marsters has a role in the upcoming film, PS I Love You and is reportedly going to attend the premiere on Dec 9. If you can't be there, you may be able to catch of peek of James on the red carpet! Crew arrivals are at 5 pm PST, and celebrity arrivals start at 6 pm.

(SPOILER)For the discussion of Buffy #9.
The last part of Brian K. Vaughan's 'No Future For You" season 8 arc hits the comic book stores today. Pull up a chair and tell us what you thought of this Buffy story.
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